LOSING RUTH MARCUS: A ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Presidency. “For a man who won office talking about change we can believe in, Barack Obama can be a strangely passive president. There are a startling number of occasions in which the president has been missing in action — unwilling, reluctant or late to weigh in on the issue of the moment. He is, too often, more reactive than inspirational, more cautious than forceful. . . . Where’s Obama? No matter how hard you look, sometimes he’s impossible to find.” It’s as if we elected an inexperienced community organizer who’s in way over his head or something. But the establishment media seems increasingly willing to point this out lately. That’s big, because without them to prop him up he’s toast.